This is a series I have adored and I was so excited to get this third and final book to see how it would all end. I wish I’d had time to go back and reread at least the last book before I started, because it took me a minute or two to get back into the story completely. Once I did though, I loved all the action and even the new types of nightmare creatures, or the new stuff we learned about them in this story. Of course since it was the final book in the series, we pretty much got all our questions answered. And there were a lot of loose ends to be wrapped up! So many things had to be figured out to understand what was happening and how to fix it.

This was an action packed story. Which unfortunately for me being as tired as I was the days I was trying to read it, I wasn’t able to keep up when I was falling asleep while reading, and had to reread some parts when I got up the next day to begin reading where I thought I’d left off. Again there was some of the humor/character interactions that I liked from before. Like when Winnie got a cell phone, an old model, and her texting conversations, especially with her mom, made me giggle.

A few things felt a little rushed or glossed over. Like I know that Jay disappeared in this one a couple times, but I feel like I needed more time with him and Winnie than we got. I did like that the author gave us some of that through memories or flashbacks. The end was just non-stop action it seemed. With Winnie having to figure some things out in the moment, again making it feel a little rushed or I would have to go back and reread parts because in my hurry I didn’t quite get what she’d figured out after a first read through.

Pretty much there was an HEA though, and we got several loved ones back that we thought were missing or might be gone for good. And even those who were gone for good got to come back for one brief moment and appear to their loved ones, so that was neat. Another thing I’ve said after the first two books that I still feel, is that I’d love to have an artist go through and create the compendium with all the drawings of the nightmare creatures. I know I imagined them based on the descriptions, but it’s always interesting to see what the author actually meant.

While this is the final book in the series, I feel like the little bit at the end means maybe there could be a branch off series? Which I’ll be here for!